The first thing you do after getting up in the morning, and the last thing you do before going to sleep at night, is check your phone

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Even while getting ready to sleep you feel the need to check your smartphone.

Then you bum in bed using your phone until you fall asleep, either going through random apps or talking to someone.

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You’re on your phone even while watching TV or eating food

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You are currently reading this article on your smartphone.

Most people who are phone addicts would browse the web and do all their online related tasks on their phones instead of using their laptops or desktops.

You are more focused on your phone than on the aspect at hand.

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Your family looks like this:

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Vacation time is more like an extended phone time for you. You might as well then just stay home and use your phone there.

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You obsessively check for emails, texts, and missed calls

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You will check your phones even while engrossed in other work or during important meetings

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You have your phone in your hand 24/7.

You always keep your phone in your hand or somewhere close to you, either chatting away, being on call, or using some random app or the other.

Not a day goes by that you are without your phone.

You will not be able to live without it even for a day. If, by mistake, you ever leave your phone at home and realize midway that you did, you go back home and fetch it. You feel incomplete without it. In most cases, you make sure you have your phone with you before you leave home.

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You get lost in your phone without realizing how much time you have wasted.

Once you are on it, it is hard for you to get off it, and in some cases, you might even have to force yourself to get off it.

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You check your phone constantly, in most cases without any reason.

You just feel the need to be on your phone, even though you’re not expecting an important message or phone call.

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You start feeling your phone vibrate just to find out later that it was a false alarm.

Such false alarms are known as phantom vibrations where a person might assume their phone to have vibrated just to find out later that it was a false alarm.

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People start experiencing these when they have become obsessively addicted to their phones.